{"id":15341,"date":"2024-10-24T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15341"},"modified":"2024-10-24T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:24:11","slug":"two-students-created-face-recognition-glasses-it-wasnt-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15341","title":{"rendered":"Two Students Created Face Recognition Glasses. It Wasn\u2019t Hard."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. A month later, he discovered he was the star of the students\u2019 viral video.<\/p>\n

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On a recent Friday afternoon, Kashif Hoda was waiting for a train near Harvard Square when a young man asked him for directions. Mr. Hoda was struck by the man\u2019s nerdy, thick-framed glasses, but he did not realize that they were Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and that a small white light indicated that they were recording.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, as Mr. Hoda\u2019s train was pulling into the station, the bespectacled man, who was a junior at Harvard University named AnhPhu Nguyen, approached him again.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you happen to be the person working on minority stuff for Muslims in India?\u201d Mr. Nguyen asked.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hoda was shocked. He worked in biotechnology, but had previously been a journalist and had written about marginalized communities in India.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve read your work before,\u201d Mr. Nguyen said. \u201cThat\u2019s super cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

They shook hands, but Mr. Hoda didn\u2019t have time to continue the conversation because his train was boarding. He posted on social media, reflecting on how strange the encounter had been.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A month later, he found out just how strange. He had been an unwitting guinea pig in an experiment meant to show just how easy it was to rig artificial intelligence tools to identify someone, access the person\u2019s biographical information \u2014 potentially including a phone number and home address \u2014 without the person realizing it.<\/p>\n

A friend texted Mr. Hoda telling him he was in a video that was going viral. Mr. Nguyen and a fellow Harvard student, Caine Ardayfio, had built glasses used for identifying strangers in real time, and had demonstrated them on two \u201creal people\u201d at the subway station, including Mr. Hoda, whose name was incorrectly transcribed in the video captions as \u201cVishit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Boston man had a strange encounter at a subway station. A month later, he discovered he was the star of the students\u2019 viral video.On a recent Friday afternoon, Kashif Hoda was waiting for a train near Harvard Square when a young man asked him for directions. Mr. Hoda was struck by the man\u2019s nerdy, thick-framed glasses, but he did not realize that they were Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and that a small white light indicated that they were recording.A few minutes later, as Mr. Hoda\u2019s train was pulling into the station, the bespectacled man, who was a junior at Harvard University named AnhPhu Nguyen, approached him again.\u201cDo you happen to be the person working on minority stuff for Muslims in India?\u201d Mr. Nguyen asked.Mr. Hoda was shocked. He worked in biotechnology, but had previously been a journalist and had written about marginalized communities in India.\u201cI\u2019ve read your work before,\u201d Mr. Nguyen said. \u201cThat\u2019s super cool.\u201dThey shook hands, but Mr. Hoda didn\u2019t have time to continue the conversation because his train was boarding. He posted on social media, reflecting on how strange the encounter had been.A month later, he found out just how strange. He had been an unwitting guinea pig in an experiment meant to show just how easy it was to rig artificial intelligence tools to identify someone, access the person\u2019s biographical information \u2014 potentially including a phone number and home address \u2014 without the person realizing it.A friend texted Mr. Hoda telling him he was in a video that was going viral. Mr. Nguyen and a fellow Harvard student, Caine Ardayfio, had built glasses used for identifying strangers in real time, and had demonstrated them on two \u201creal people\u201d at the subway station, including Mr. Hoda, whose name was incorrectly transcribed in the video captions as \u201cVishit.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15343,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15344,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15341\/revisions\/15344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}